Stop users from posting BMPs

[TCPlomp]

It's a good thing that the forum prevents users from posting a *.bmp file. However it would be nice if the actual content of other image-types (png, jpg, gif) are checked upon uploading for the actual data type.

Ton

(personally I think those users should be banned.)

[Laura F. · Accepted solution]

Thanks Ton. I will pass along the feedback.

Regards,

Laura

[smercurio_fc]

I asked for this 2 years ago. http://forums.ni.com/t5/Feedback-on-NI-Discussion-Forums/Feature-Request-REALLY-disallow-BMP-attachm...

Not holding my breath.

[Ben]

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@TCPlomp wrote:

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(personally I think those users should be banned.)

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I hope that only applies to new attempt and not old posts (when I did not know any better).

Ben

[Laura F.]

I should note that users that use the image insertion button and upload an image cannot change the extension on a BMP and use it. It's only when directly attaching to messages that this can happen.  To me it seems that most users use the image insertion button so hopefully the occurrences have decreased.

[altenbach]

Here we have a case where a small image of a broken run arrow takes up ~3MB! 😞

(I have a 200MB/month limit on my cell phone data plan, so that image alone would cost me half my daily allowance!)